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Alternative names	W. Blake; Uil'iam Bleik; Blake
Description	English-British painter, poet, theologian, collector, printmaker and illustrator
Date of birth/death	28 November 1757	12 August 1827
Location of birth/death	London	London
Work location	London; Felpham
Authority file	: Q41513 VIAF: 54144439 ISNI: 000000012096135X ULAN: 500012489 LCCN: n78095331 NLA: 35019221 WorldCat

Description

English: The Song of Los, copy C object 1

Date

1795

Medium

Relief etching with color printing and hand coloring. The title page and full-plate designs (plates 1-3, 8 as arranged in this copy, Bentley plates 1, 8, 2, 5) were color printed planographically.

Dimensions

height: 35.9 cm (14.1 in); width: 24.8 cm (9.7 in)

Collection

The Morgan Library & Museum

	Native name	The Morgan Library and Museum
	Location	New York
	Coordinates	40° 44′ 55.69″ N, 73° 58′ 53.6″ W
	Established	1906
	Website	www.themorgan.org
	Authority file	: Q1478423 VIAF: 139537973 ISNI: 0000000122914346 ULAN: 500303622 LCCN: n78095799 NLA: 35422757 WorldCat

Object history

Acquired by H. A. Mair at an unknown time in the nineteenth century; sold from his collection at auction, Puttick and Simpson's, London, 19 Nov. 1900, lot 338, bound with Visions of the Daughters of Albion copy H, Europe a Prophecy copy G, and three water-color drawings attributed to Blake "added," one apparently related to The Song of Los (£225 to the dealer Bernard Quaritch, possibly acting for Marsden J. Perry); acquired in 1900 by Perry, who may have removed the drawings; the three illuminated books, still bound together, acquired by William A. White in March 1908; the volume given in July 1917 by White to his daughter, Frances White Emerson; the three illuminated books, still bound together but without the drawings, sold from Emerson's collection at Sotheby's, 19 May 1958, lot 4 (£23,000 to the dealer John Fleming, who apparently disbound the three illuminated books); The Song of Los copy C sold by Fleming to Mrs. Landon K. Thorne, apparently shortly after the 1958 auction; given by Thorne in Feb. 1972 to the Pierpont Morgan Library (now Morgan Library and Museum).

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The William Blake Archive

	Location	Digital Collection hosted on servers at UNC Chapel Hill
	Established	1996
	Website	http://www.blakearchive.org/
	Authority file	: Q7774989

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